IN INTEREST OF B.R.F.

S15G1301.

788 S.E.2d 416 (2016)

IN The INTEREST OF B.R.F f/k/a B.R.M., a Child.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: July 5, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Britt Cagle Grant , Dennis R. Dunn , Deputy Attorney General, Penny Hannah , Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Samuel S. Olens , Attorney General, Mark James Cicero , Assistant Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, for Appellant.

Vicky Ogawa Kimbrell , Lisa Jane Krisher , Phyllis J. Holmen , Georgia Legal Services Program, 104 Marietta Street, N.W., Suite 250, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-2743, Marcy Alexandra Muller , Georgia Legal Services Program, 1508 N. Thornton Avenue, Suite 100, P.O. Box 2004, Dalton, Georgia 30722, for Amicus Appellant.

Jane Garrett Okrasinski , 145 Three Oaks Dr., Athens, Georgia 30607, Nathan Andrew Hayes , Office of the Child Attorney, 395 Pryor Street, S.W., Suite 4098, Atlanta, Georgia 30312, Suparna Malempati Joshi , Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, 1422 West Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, for Neutral Amicus.

Thomas Charles Rawlings , McMillan & Rawlings, LLP, P.O. Box 5746, Sandersville, Georgia 31082, for Appellee.

Todd Andrew Harding , MAddox & Harding LLC, 113 East Solomon Street, Griffin, Georgia 30223, Roger Craig Montgomery , 4797 Tuck Persons HWY, Talbotton, Georgia 31827-0000, Charles Burton O'Neill, Jr. , Charles B. O'Neill, Jr., P.C., 9840 U. S. Highway 19, P.O. Box 1188, Zebulon, Georgia 30295-1188, for Other Party.


This appeal comes to us from the grant of a petition for a writ of certiorari. In the underlying case, appellee Mother's parental rights were terminated on January 14, 2013. Since Mother was indigent, she was represented by appointed counsel during the termination proceedings in the juvenile court per OCGA § 15-11-98 (2012...

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